Agreed. "The Hobbit" has been my favorite book since I was ten.

For anyone interested in the little-known backstories and the evolution of the periodic table, "The Disappearing Spoon" by Sam Kean is really enjoyable. You'll have to read it with two bookmarks, though - it's best to read the endnotes as you progress through the meat of it.

Many of my favorite books were written by Diana Wynne Jones. I particularly enjoyed the Derkholm and Chrestomanci books. The world is a less magical place without her.

Your reading of the review was quite different than mine. My impression is that Analee was blasting the film for its sexist drivel. And judging from what I've seen of it, I have to agree with her.

Agreed.

Wait - "SyFy" is actually going to greenlight a science fiction TV show?! But however will they squeeze it into their wrestling, cooking, ghost hunting, and reality programming schedule? Because all of those things are totally science fiction!

The poor guy's died twice already at the end of the last two seasons! Hopefully they can give him a break this year.

Not true! Star Trek has certainly proved that men wearing red is definitely *not* a surviving evolutionary trait.

@serenada: That's precisely what I was thinking - and the way Castiel's character has been presented leads me to believe that Jimmy (and later his daughter) is his first human vessel. Maybe the episode will show Cas rising up through the ranks of the army of Heaven. Maybe he and Balthazar are BFFs that are running…

@serenada: I'd be cool with that. ;)

You're right - there was some major house-cleaning done in the last episode. I don't want Bobby or Cas to die! I'm guessing the two "unexpected" deaths will be Balthazar and Lisa.

@Hofnarr: I know this is an old thread, but I was thinking about Supernatural the other day and had an idea that I think the show's writers should run with - an idea that could make all of our John Winchester-as-God dreams come true! And I had to share it with someone - lucky you! ;)

Yuuuuuuuuuck.

I'm still holding out hope that "Eve" is just a code name she picked that sounds a little less other-worldly than Echidna or Tiamat. If they wanted a biblical mother of monsters, they should have used Lillith, except OH WAIT - they already did. Come on, Supernatural writers. Expand your horizons! ;)

Anna was the only female-bodied angel that had any dialogue - I've caught glimpses of angels with female vessels a few times. Rafael's new vessel looks tough and competent - so far it looks as though they're definitely not playing to her sexuality, which pleases me. I don't know if angels are necessarily completely…

Bobby met Rufus after Bobby's wife was possessed and Bobby had stabbed her in self-defense. Rufus exorcised the demon with holy water, which caused Bobby's wife to die of the stab wound. Rufus helped Bobby clean up the mess so that he wouldn't go to jail for murder. After that, they started to hunt together.

That part of it wasn't necessarily sexual, but the whole "I'm a barefoot virginal woman asking for a ride and then totally coming on to you" thing with the truck driver was. Perhaps the writers introduced her that way in order to steer the conversation toward God and absent fathers abandoning children and how mothers…

I'm not sure how angels handle the gender thing, or even if it's really that much of a deal to them. Remember that Cas used Jimmy's daughter as a vessel in the fourth season, and that Michael kept talking about bloodlines and such when he was trying to convince Dean to give his consent, and also took 1970s John…

Also, the scene where they all put their fingers in their ears was hysterical!

That's a really cool idea, and one that I hadn't considered before. I've always thought that the reason that demons and angels gather human souls is because they can be used as some sort of power source. Not much of an afterlife to look forward to, I'll admit, but at least we know that Heaven is relatively benign…